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We had a great time whale watching from Húsavík, Iceland. We saw one whale playing and "waving" at us, and another time we saw three breach at the same time.
This was a sunny afternoon, the high tides make it impossible to stay on the beach but not from watching the sea.
Lithuanian basketball fans in the capital of Vilnius gather in the Town Hall Square to watch their team playing in the Beijing Olympics Semifinals against Spain. (Lithuania lost the game.)
I have a particular fondness for analog mechanical watches featuring unique mechanisms or design. I am fairly certain no one else has this eclectic assemblage, even if I ignore the watch that the NASA Administrator took with him for his first orbital spaceflight. Deets:
1) Alt-Smart Watch, with a cephalopod intertwined front and back. The eye holds the mainspring.
2) The newest Patek design, and my first. I especially like the use of dual number discs on the same plane for a large date display up top. It’s thin, but wearing it, I can tell platinum is almost 3x denser than steel.
3) The Freak-S, Serial Number 69 of course. This is a bit of an engineering marvel as the entire watch caliber is built into the minute hand which drives a tiny gear rolling around the outer rim, and it drives the hour hand below. It took MEMS silicon manufacturing to make tiny escapement gears so a double tourbillon with differential fits in the hand. And it has no stem.
4) A unique perpetual calendar that does not have any buttons, just a single stem. It keeps a record of date and moon phase for centuries, accounting for the odd months and leap years in the mechanical clockwork.
5) An odd tumbler. The turntable flips the hour wheel to show the time on the right side. Looking at it carefully, I realize that it achieves all of the motion from a single central shaft rotating 3x slower than a usual hour hand. A stationary peg in the face catches the smaller wheels to rotate them a quarter turn as they pass by. The face is labradorite, one of my favorite minerals.
6) My current fave, as it is so unique and visually striking, and a bit mysterious. It’s also the first of its kind in North America. The hours are tiny cubes that rotate so that only one has a white face up. The tourbillon is centrally mounted, and all of the clockwork and self-winding mechanism appear to float in the center of the case. And that’s the mysterious part: none of the tumblers touch the rim, and given the moving pieces front and back, it is not attached to either sapphire face either. Want to guess how they did it?
7) Flown bespoke SpaceX Inspirati④n watch from Mission Commander Jared Isaacman. He sold it to me in a St. Jude Children’s Hospital charity auction. Jared wore it in space on the three-day mission, the first flight of an all-civilian crew, as covered in the Netflix documentary Countdown. The body is a unique white ceramic that’s harder than any other watch body.
8) A fanciful frolic called BR-03 Astro, with a Starlink satellite in Low Earth Orbit (seconds), Luna on the horizon (minutes), and an hourly Mars floating in the distance, beckoning us.
And there you have it, some of my favorite things... anachronistic chronometers as they may be. If you made it this far, which would be your fave?
Grunt scans the sky for updrafts as he prepares to launch a recon flight on the Falcon glider.
I wasn't exactly looking to replace my long-gone glider but got one for pretty cheap recently. I'm afraid to even look at it, that it might fall apart. Even 25 years ago, they were pretty fragile. So I'm going to trace the shape on some foamboard, add the pilot's frame and see if a surrogate glider will actually fly.
While rummaging through a trunk of old stuff, I found the watch I was given when I made my First Holy Communion when I was in second grade.
It still works!
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One Year Ago Today A BAD hair day
Three Years Ago Today An "I meant to do that" bad hair day.
""I am about to spring forth from this bag...back arched...and prancing sideways toward you..lowering my ears and becoming a fierce, wild thing...approaching you standing on my hind legs and front paws extending my claws, in my dance,....attempting to remind you that I am the "King''.....:)and if you move, I just might shoot straight up in the air,...my hair standing on end, claws out and wild eyed...remembering my roots...:)"""
Going through old photos and memories, brings ''Sangee''....a son of Zorrie, who was my purebred Copper-Eyed Black Persian...who escaped the house long enough to ''fall in love'' with a ''stranger''....:) We never met his father...:)
Sangee was a joy to behold!
On April 13th, 2010 Los Angeles Fire Department - California Task Force 1 conducted a live *Heavy Extrication Drill* at FS 88's Disaster Village located at 5101 Sepulveda Blvd in Sherman Oaks at 10AM. This exercise was open to the media and public. Photo by © Michael Corral.
This watch was a Microsoft idea which came along at the time before PDA's really took off. It worked by encoding your names/addresses/phone numbers/etc as thin white horizontal bars (like a sideways barcode) and flashed them on the screen at a fast pace, while you held the watch face towards it. Once it was finished you then had all that data in your watch! Quite clever really.
Day 10 of my 30 days of watches is a side scrolling world map based on NASA's topo map. The current "noon" is highlighted under the yellow sun, so the map makes one rotation per day. The local time is displayed around the tropic of Capricorn. When the button is pressed the world spins to display the map.
Breitling wrist watch in The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009, Columbia Pictures, screen capture)
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A small crowd watches the World Cup championship game on a TV set in the window of Sandrine's Bistro, a sponsor of that evening's Bastille Day street party.
Project work for degree. The task was to show people at work. This watch and clock man was a good subject.
This gold pocket watch, won by the owner's grandfather in a poker game in the 1950's, is one of the many items that will be viewed by expert appraisers at the annual "Antiques Off the Road Show," May 30, 2015.
Now the current Mrs Fish is nowhere near as enthusiastic about all things aquatic as I am....
However, bless her, she patiently and stoicly walked around two huge aquariums with me in Dubai, she didn't hurry me in the least (although she did balk when I wanted to start back at the beginning and go around the whole thing again, but that is understandable I s'pose).
She did enjoy it, she says, and I beleive her... after all, how could anyone fail to be blown away by the sheer scale of the thing.
This is a pic of me watching her watching the fish.